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| "Dear teacher, Johnny can't come to school to day, he done got raptured." |
A Texas court ruled this month that parents who allegedly stopped homeschooling their kids because they believed Jesus Christ was returning to Earth were not exempt from state education regulations.
According to a ruling last week by the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals, Michael McIntyre and Laura McIntyre removed their nine children from a private school in 2004 to homeschool them.
Michael McIntyre’s twin brother, Tracy, testified that the parents used empty space in a motorcycle dealership that he co-owned as a classroom. But Tracy said that he never saw the children reading books, using computers or doing arithmetic. Instead, the children were seen playing instruments and singing.
“Tracy overhead one of the McIntyre children tell a cousin that they did not need to do schoolwork because they were going to be raptured,” the court document noted.
I have to admit that the Rapture is one of my favorite Christian mythologies.
It always seems to me that it is amazing that fundamentalist Christians do ANYTHING since they seem to live under the perpetual believe that at any minute they will be scooped up and taken to a place where having a drivers license, or a Master's degree, or a real job will not make one bit of difference.
Of course predictions for the date of the Rapture have been set going back as far as 53 AD, which means Christians have been left disappointed for more than 2000 years.
And STILL they buy the BS.
You know what might keep this kind of ignorance from happening in the first place?
A good public school education that's what. Which might in fact be the REAL reason that these parents do not want their children exposed to it.
Maybe it's just me, but the "rapture" is the one myth I wish was true, then we could make the world a better place.
ReplyDeleteOh Jesus!
DeleteAh, yes, the fundamentalist Christian -- with their heads permanently stuck up their fundament.
ReplyDeleteI feel so sorry for those kids being exposed to all that nonsense.
Whatever, those are 9 kids that will be serving me my latte or checking out my groceries. If parents wish to retard the productivity of their spawn who am I to complain? They will work for $7.50/hour and keep my groceries and coffee drinks affordable. Later in life they'll probably wake up and hate their parents, whom they still live with, but since there is no test needed to be passed to qualify as a parent some of those poor kids fall through the cracks and live lives of abject misery serving those that didn't have such dumb, brainwashed parents.
ReplyDeleteSo sayeth the capitalism, so sayeth the free market economy (which also too, suffers no fools, nor rewards them)
Excuse me----my newly college graduated niece is serving you lattes until she finds a job in marketing.
DeleteThese kids won't be able to read or write and were probably raised to believe coffee shops are evil and
full of liberals.
Angela,
DeleteUnfortunately, due to the sheer numbers of college grads today, unless your niece went to a notable school and had a flawless GPA then she'll probably be working as a barista for quite some time.
Millenials are finding it impossible to even leave home and many are staying with their parents for longer periods of time due to their inability to find high paying jobs within their field of study.
Not just you 12:25 PM:
ReplyDeleteI wish they all would be 'levitated' to eternal bliss so the rest of us could go about the business of trying to build a better world without the hindrance of superstitious primitives.
Obama: Democrats Are “Generally Fact-Based, Reason-Based” While the GOP Denies Science
ReplyDeleteDuring a comprehensive interview with The New York Times, President Obama attacked modern conservatism and the GOP for being too ideological and extremist. He continued by describing the Democratic Party like so:
'And by the way, it generally is fact-based and reason-based. You know, we’re not denying science, we’re not denying climate change, we’re not pretending that somehow having a whole bunch of uninsured people is the American way.'
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/08/obama-democrats-generally-fact-based-reason-based-gop-denies-science/
Atheist Receives Death Threats from Loving ‘Christians’ for Pushing Plaque Honoring Freethought in Alabama
ReplyDeleteJust days after the Mobile County Commission shot down the atheist, Universialist, and pagan proposals for matching plaques to the “In God We Trust” plaque the Commission did approve, one of the atheists spearheading the push to remove the plaque, Amanda Scott, has been targeted by Christians for death threats.
http://aattp.org/atheist-receives-death-threats-from-loving-christians-for-pushing-plaque-honoring-freethought-in-alabama/
I generally support what Anonymous does, but this interference before all the facts are known is more criminal than not. Some hactivist is reacting emotionally, not rationally.
ReplyDeleteSilly fundies! Why didn't they form a corporation? I'm sure that business friendly Texas would allow a corporation to override the state's educational regulations.
ReplyDeleteROFL You are so delightfully naughty. Thanks for making my day.
ReplyDeleteMany of those waiting fro the rapture are going to be heartbroken since only 1,400 will be going to that big home in the sky. Or will it be 1,444? Can never remember.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if I could get all of the stuff they will leave behind? Those lucky 1,400 or so?
YOU are Ssssooooo bad! I almost wet my pants laughing!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite HBO series was Six Feet Under. Each episode began with a death. One of my favorites was a buybull thumping woman driving behind a pick-up with a tarp over it. One of the ropes holding the tarp broke loose and a bunch of naked blow-up dolls floated up in the air. The buybull thumper instantly believed it must be the rapture and crashed her car and died. That show also had the best last episode of any series ever...
ReplyDeleteWhew! I was addicted to that show. Not only well written, but high intensity acting, that last episode knocked my socks off. It's on You Tube. Every Time I hear that song, it reminds me of that show.
DeleteImagine sticking your own head up your own ass as a religion.
ReplyDeleteNow, stop and think of the number of people that YOU KNOW
that would jump at the chance to join that church.
A LOT of them would, wouldn't they?
Yes. yes they would.
The Order of the Asshats.
The Church of the Stinky-Heads
"We believe that God came down from Heaven and got into Mary's womb so He could be born as a human on this Earth so he could be crucified in order to save us from our sins.
...and that makes perfect sense to us.
...because: (A) we our heads up our butts.
and (B) we haven't really read our Bible.
Hallelujah!"
sheesh
I thought having your head up your ass was the first qualification for ALL religions. There is absolutely no other way a reasonable and sane-minded person could believe any of that crap, from any religion, unless they had their head firmly planted in their posterior.
DeleteThey're pushing these homeschool programs like cider donuts at the country fair in Philadelphia. They show parents who are THRILLED they count as "public schooling", parents who are over the moon with tears in their eyes because the teacher on the other side of the keyboard "understands" my kid's so well, etc. etc etc. Yes, it works for some people, but there's a lot more to actually attending a public school that a lot of these kids are getting cheated out of. Things like learning to relate to other kids and kids who are or look "different" than they do. Things like team sports where you learn you belong to something and contribute to the outcome of competition. Life is about winning gracefully, losing gracefully and learning how to adapt when things don't go your way.
ReplyDeleteKeeping kids from school because of religion, being left behind, and the rapture just teaches them to not even try, you're going to see Jesus and it's a waste of time.
My sister's a public school teacher and she's helped kids with eye problems, neurological impairments and learning disabilities from watching them, noticing differences in writing and speech patterns, and other signs. These kids can't possibly get this level of help sitting at a computer screen and sending in word documents to be marked.
This rapture crap is child abuse.
The concept of "rapture" is a Christian myth.
ReplyDelete" they will be scooped up and taken to a place where having a drivers license, or a Master's degree, or a real job will not make one bit of difference."
ReplyDeleteAlabama?